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The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of what is today Mexico, the Southwestern United States, the Florida and the Luisiana, Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines) in order to preach the gospel to these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés, Carlos V sent the first Franciscan friars with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.

Missions

Mapa del Virreinato de la Nueva España (1819)

Baja California

Main article: Spanish missions in Baja California

Coahuila

Nuevo León

Nuevo Santander

Nueva Vizcaya

Topia, the western province of Nueva Vizcaya, contained three major missions: Xiximes, San Andrés, and Santa Cruz de Topia. These were each subdivided into several districts, or partidos, each of which in turn contained several pueblos, or visitas.[4]

Xiximes

First district:

  • San Pablo Hetasi[4]
  • San Pedro de Guarizame[4]
  • Santa Lucia[4]

Second district:

  • Santa Cruz de Yamoriba[5]
  • San Bartolomé de Humase[4]

Third district:

  • Santa Apolonia[5]
  • Concepcion[4]
  • Santiago el Nuevo[4]

Fourth district:

  • San Ignacio[4]
  • San Gerónimo Adia (or Ahoya)[4]
  • San Juan[4]
  • San Francisco Cababayan (or Cabazan)[4]
  • San Agustin[4]

San Andrés

First district:

Second district:

Third district:

  • San Gregorio[4]
  • Sojbupa[4]
  • San Pedro[4]
  • San Mateo de Tecayas[4]

Fourth district:

Santa Cruz de Topia

First district:

Second district:

Third district:

Parras, the eastern province of Nueva Vizcaya, contained six major missions with their visitas, as follows.[4]

Santa María de Parras

  • el Pozo
  • La Peña
  • Santa Barbara

San Pedro y San Pablo de Laguna

  • Concepcion

San Lorenzo

  • Horno
  • Santa Ana

San Sebastian

  • San Geronimo

San Ignacio

  • San Juan de Casta

Santiago

  • San José de las Abas
  • Baicuco


Mission San Pablo Tepehuanes[5] had the following partidos and visitas:[4]

First district:

  • Santiago Papasquiaro
  • San Andrés Atotonilco
  • San Nicolás

Second district:

  • Santa Catalina
  • Tepehuanes presidio

Third district:

Fourth district:

  • San José Tizonazo
  • Santa Cruz


Other missions in Nueva Vizcaya included:

Sonora y Sinaloa

Main article: Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert

Other

  • Convento de San Agustín de Yuriria.
    Convento de San Agustín de Yuriria.
  • Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
    Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
  • Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
    Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
  • Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
    Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.

See also

References

  1. ^ "SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO MISSION | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  2. ^ "SAN JUAN BAUTISTA | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  3. ^ "SAN JUAN BAUTISTA | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1884). History of the North Mexican States... A. L. Bancroft. pp. 341–344.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Deeds, Susan M. (1 August 2003). Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya. University of Texas Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-0-292-70551-7.
  6. ^ Later Nuestra Señora del Zape.
  7. ^ Also called Potrero; later San José
  8. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  9. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  10. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  11. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  12. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  13. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  14. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  15. ^ Murrieta, Cynthia Radding (1997). Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850. Duke University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8223-1899-6.
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